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I'm helping a grandson install the Win7 Enterprise free 90 day eval version on his tower from a DVD I burned and have used successfully before on my PC, so it's burned just fine. His homebrew PC (2.66GHz Core 2 Duo/4G/750G HD) originally ran Win7 Home Premium from a disc that came with a Dell...

Hi all, Can someone tell me if by converting my XviD's to DVD (AUDIO & VIDEO T_S) files,if any quality is lost or gained during re-encoding? I do this so that friends, -a pc can watch them on a normal bog standard DVD player. Someone once described the XviD format as lossy ???

Hi Folks Windows 7 recently updated with about 17 additions. Is it policy to take a systems back-up (originally carried out after purchase on two DVD's)? If the answer is yes (which seems logical) can it be carried out on an external hard drive since the notices appear to only mention USBs or...

Ok, now my monitor is working great & i can now use Sleep option on my win7 64bit, ive discovered something very annoying. When i put my system to sleep for the night to save all my open windows & so forth so i know exactly where i was at when i went to sleep, when i woke up the system 1 of my...

This is a strange problem I have on one of the XP systems at work. I'm sure changing the whole drive would solve it but I'm curious if someone knows why this is: When a CD is inserted in the tray, going to My Computer and RIGHT clicking in the DVD\CD drive and clicking Eject, doesn't eject the...

I recently got a new computer with W7. I am trying to use the Windows7 backup program. It works well. I just did a full system backup (image) to my external hard drive. I deleted a file and was able to bring back the individual file. NOW, I am not sure how to do future backups. I would like...

Hi, We use a Sony Vaio laptop and everything was Ok... but all of a sudden a problem occurred. Neither DVDs nor CDs could be played. We used Microsoft's Fix It (Automated Troubleshooting Services) and it fixed our CD problem and we can play CDs now but now DVDs . "Fix It" reported there...

I clean installed Windows 7 Home premioum on preloaded Windows Vista Home Premium in my Sony VGN-CR24G Laptop and since then the AV mode, the in built camera, the Instant Mode, Mass storage devices, DVD writting as wll as the Play mode is not working. The OS is working fine. Moreover, Google...

My friend just bought a new netbook computer with the Windows 7 Starter OS. When we tried to play a DVD with Dolby sound, no sound was produced. Doing a little research, it appears that the problem is that Starter doesn't have the Windows Media Center component which would provide the codecs...

Hello, I have a Windows 7 installation disc that I created. It has worked in the past because I have Windows 7 running on this computer now. I wanted to reformat but disc is not booting. Have gone into Bios and checked that, 1 as DVD, 2 as HDD no probs seemingly there. I have also tried it on...

I have been recording movies from TV in WMC. I have converted some of them to MPEG only to discover that most are too large to fit on a DV5 disc. I have searched the net and downloaded and tried countless programmes, both free and trial versions and have not achieved a thing. Most refer to...

I have Windows 7 64-Bit, all updated. I have a bluray writer/reader. Windows can run the auto setup but cannot "Open in New Window" or "Open" to view files inside the disk. Just won't open even after I click "Open in New Window" or "Open." I have tried about 30 disks (bluray, cdr, cdrw, dvd...

Hello All, Has anyone found a resolution for this error: "Windows cannot verify the digital signature for the drivers required for this device. A recent hardware or software change might have installed a file that is signed incorrectly or damaged, or that might be malicious software from an...

Hello forum, I'm having an issue that I can't quite find a solution to. I'm writing a series of photo CD's, after I have completed the burn I go into Windows Explorer to click on the CD drive to view the contents to verify the disc write. But every time I do this Windows will ask me if I want to...

Ok so I've moved into a new house and want to network my computers to my xbox and use media center as my primary entertainment source. What I want to know is does windows 7 have a program that will take the video from a DVD and make it a high quality WMV file. that way I can store my DVD's in...

I am trying to upgrade from Vista Home Premium to Win 7 Ultimate using a DVD bought at retail. The upgrade process hangs while Gathering programs and settings, always at the 86% mark. Yesterday it hung at 6:00 PM and I let it run overnight -- at 9:00 AM next day it was still hung. No error...

I am looking for drivers for: SONY DVD RW DW-D18A ATA Device I have downloaded the drivers directly from sony's website itself but Windows 7 does not recognize! Thanks to all that help !! :o

Is there any i can check the version of a windows 7 i burnt on a dvd? if it is 7600 or 7100 etc. etc. i cant remember it, didnt made a label before. pls help me. if inserted on drive this is the name info GRMCULFRER_EN_DVD

:confused: When I put in a DVD I get a "KoanBox is undefined" error message. What the heck is a koanbox? Please assist me :eek:!

I've been looking for a dvd decrpter that will work with windows 7 64 bit os. I'm not looking for it but for one reason to make backup copies of a dvd's I have that don't play very good and I was hoping to make a new copy so I can burn a slower copy of it to see if it will fix the errors. I work...